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‘Kaufman is riffing on well-connected dots from Wolfe's reportage, as well as having a little fun with Johnson's reputation for old-school bullying and sulking.’

‘The whole disc is jumbled riffing and passages that are ham-fistedly smashed together, making each ‘tune’ come plodding out of the speakers like a wet, grumbly fart.’

‘While the band was riffing away, Fallon would unleash a torrent of lyrics about monster trucks, prison planets and yetis in his unmistakable throaty roar.’

‘So perhaps it comes as bit of a surprise that some of the best riffing to be heard on any album this year doesn't come from some retro-garage band, but from electronica outfit Ratatat.’

‘‘He loves riffing about show business,’ says Williams, one of his famous friends.’

‘Who needs six minutes worth of foreshadowing, ambient noise and one-chord riffing when you could surge straight into a noise as glorious as this?’

‘The musicians in the band are just as comfortable thrashing out with The Misfits and The Ramones as they are riffing with Ted Nugent or KISS.’

‘This is Shatner's milieu these days - riffing about love and pain in a sort of slow-motion white man's rap.’

‘Even the former stars of soupy boy bands have taken up riffing.’

‘With Dave Grohl behind the drum kit and a bucket full of Sabbath style riffing, it certainly rocks.’

‘Stoppard further underlines the tension between perception and reality by riffing on Hamlet's ‘play within a play’ that catches the conscience of the king.’

‘The dubious wisdom of naming your record after a crumbling empire's capital aside, the band makes a noble effort, even if their search often leads them to simple power-punk or minor-key metal riffing.’

‘It's like watching two nerdy kids on the bus riffing endlessly on their own inside jokes: it might be fun if you're bored, but pretty soon you'd rather just look out the window.’

‘Fortunately, it turned out they too spoke the international language of prog rock or whatever musical abomination he was riffing on at the time.’

‘Often times, Simmons' band sounds remarkably like the traditional Coltrane quartet, with pianist John Hicks riffing off propulsive drummer, James Zitro.’

1.1Perform a monologue or spoken improvisation on a particular subject:

‘he also riffs on racism and the economy’

‘Building on Curtis's concept, you can begin exploratory sketching by riffing off of these three words or phrases.’